Lorry traffic is turning picturesque village into ‘wild west’, say residents after death of Eloise Jackson

A seven-year-old girl died when she cycled into a lorry outside her home, an inquest heard, as residents expressed anger over the number of HGVs turning the picturesque Wiltshire village where she lived into the “wild west”.

Eloise Jackson had only recently learned to ride when she fatally collided with the wheels of a moving HGV metres outside her front door on 13 July 2021, a coroner was told.

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